New Hire Classes and Drops
12-14-2021, 02:57 AM
#1781
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Joined APC: Oct 2017
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Depends, 3 hrs which direction? 756 cover JFK too now. You will hold a line more quickly on 73 or Bus. Bus is covering much more LGA flying too. I think January showed 40% of Bus departures out of LGA versus EWR. The rare 4 leg days you hear about on the bus aren’t even difficult in the truest sense. If you decide you want 756 you can bid up but not true of the other direction if you try 756 and don’t like it, you can’t bid down to 73/bus for 2 years. Best Wishes
12-14-2021, 07:03 AM
#1783
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Depends, 3 hrs which direction? 756 cover JFK too now. You will hold a line more quickly on 73 or Bus. Bus is covering much more LGA flying too. I think January showed 40% of Bus departures out of LGA versus EWR. The rare 4 leg days you hear about on the bus aren’t even difficult in the truest sense. If you decide you want 756 you can bid up but not true of the other direction if you try 756 and don’t like it, you can’t bid down to 73/bus for 2 years. Best Wishes
12-14-2021, 07:22 AM
#1785
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Currently showing 19 unfilled positions on the snapshot for the current vacancy bid. That bid closes today so we will know the "official" answer late today or tomorrow, but looks like it may be possible to get that assigned in new hire and if not you would likely get it on the first vacancy bid in which it is available after you are hired. If you don't get it as you new hire assignment you would be at the mercy of the next vacancy bid timing and then the "need" for people in ORD balanced against the "need" for pilots in whatever base you get as a new hire. Given the way things are moving here right now I would say that you wouldn't wait long if at all.
12-14-2021, 08:12 AM
#1786
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Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: 767/757 CA
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Add this nugget to your basing decision in EWR: You need to be within 2.5 hours drive time of EWR to sit short call reserve from home… so I’d bid 737 EWR if your goal is to not sit in a car/crash pad/hotel while scheduled on SC for the first 6-9 months at United… movement in this fleet to linholder status will be much quicker. Once off RSV life will improve drastically and the 737 fleet has the most movement for new hires. If unable to hold 737 then I’d bid 756 EWR… flying is best in the system and pretty regular movement since it’s normally going infilled in vacancy bids recently. Either case reserve sucks if you don’t love 2.5 hours from the domicile… once a lineholder everything will be more enjoyable. Good luck.
12-14-2021, 08:38 AM
#1787
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Joined APC: Feb 2018
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Concur with all the previous posters. I'd bid narrow body even if you can't get ewr right off, by the time you finish IOE, you should be able to get into ewr and life is way better with seniority which you will get on the narrowbody before you will on the 756. The other reason is basic rsv vs global rsv which the 756 fleet sometimes gets. Living 3 hours away, you don't want to be on global rsv especially covering 3 bases.
12-14-2021, 09:23 AM
#1788
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: Boeing right seat
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At SFO, for example, from the time you swipe into the Employee lot, it is at least 20 minutes to get to Ops or the gate/aircraft. And that's moving at a good pace.
I've taken advantage of contractual provision of parking closer to the terminal with a short call out. I haven't timed it, but I'd guess it only saves 5'-8' tops.
12-14-2021, 12:40 PM
#1789
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Joined APC: Dec 2008
Position: 320 Captain
Posts: 662
it’s not that the 319/320 isn’t capable of doing so, just that they aren’t configured to do so. Much like the legacy UAL 757’s. No need to send them to Europe when we had the 767’s to do so.
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